Do you enjoy growing plants and having a garden but live in an area that’s just not conducive to outdoor plants? If so, you may be wondering how you can have your garden. You can set up a greenhouse, but that seems a bit much, especially if you just want to grow a few extra vegetables and other herbs for your table. You don’t need a huge greenhouse for only a dozen tomato plants, after all. You can always try growing vegetables indoors, but this can lead to some issues. One of the biggest problems here is that you have to have special grow lights to get your plants to grow really well. In the past, these grow lights were very expensive and heavy—you had to be sure your ceiling could support them before you even thought about installing them in your home.

LED grow lights are much lighter than standard grow lights—and that’s no pun! They really weigh much less than traditional grow lights do, plus they are “much lighter” in the sense that they produce a huge amount of light. One small LED panel can light up an entire room and will last for 50,000 hours. You may think this will suck up a lot of your electricity, but it won’t. In fact, to light a 1.5 foot squared area, you only need an LED grow light that uses 14 watts of power. With traditional lights, you may need up to a 100 watt lighting panel to get the same results. LED grow lights are also very affordable, and you can easily set up a full indoor grow room for only a few hundred dollars.